have (hand)writing like chicken scratch

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have (hand)writing like chicken scratch

To have very poor, messy, and/or illegible handwriting, likened to the marks made in the dirt by a chicken. I can't understand these notes at all, you have handwriting like chicken scratch!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Damyan	-	Bulgarian
West	[west]
Toby	['təubi]
Martina	mahr-TEE-nah (Italian, Spanish, Dutch), mahr-TEEN-ə (English)	German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, English, Swedish, Dutch, Ancien
Ieronimus	-	Late Roman
Kunal	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi